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🔥 Daily Digest: Boost Your Dev Workflow with Dropdown Tips, Git Search Hacks, and Shell Shortcuts

PLUS: Explore AI-Ready Repos, Emoji Compatibility, and App Generation with Today’s Coding Toolbox

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🛩️ QUICK SUMMARY

This issue is packed with handy tips and AI-powered tools for boosting your development workflow. Here’s the scoop:

  • Dropdown Tips: Make dropdowns search-friendly and user-focused.

  • Shell History Navigation: Speed up command recall with CTRL key shortcuts.

  • Git Search Hack: Learn how to search for specific strings in Git commit changes.

  • Coding Toolbox:

    • Emoji-Fallback.js: Ensures emoji compatibility by replacing characters with Twemoji images.

    • repomix: Bundle your repo into a single, AI-ready file.

    • qapyq: Curate and edit AI datasets with an intuitive image viewer.

    • engy: Generate fully functional web apps with just natural language prompts.

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💻 TUTORIAL OF THE DAY

Mastering Automated Image Optimization in Production

In today’s web applications, the upload is just the start. Every image—whether a user avatar, product shot, or article cover—needs refinement before it’s ready for production. But optimizing images isn’t a one-size-fits-all task; you need a workflow that targets only new uploads, avoiding redundant re-processing. Let’s build an automated system that makes this seamless.

Step 1: Flagging Optimization Status with a Database Field

The backbone of our system is a simple flag in the database to track optimization status. By adding an is_optimized boolean to your images table, you can mark an image as optimized once processed. Here’s the SQL command:

ALTER TABLE images ADD COLUMN is_optimized BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE;

Step 2: Building the Optimization Workflow with Node.js

For efficiency, we’re using Node.js to handle database querying, image processing, and status updating. We’ll use sharp for resizing, imagemin for compression, and plugins like imagemin-mozjpeg and imagemin-pngquant for format-specific optimizations. The script checks each image, optimizes it, and then updates its is_optimized status.

// Image Optimization Script
const optimizeImage = async (filePath, id) => {
    const ext = path.extname(filePath).toLowerCase();
    const resizedImage = await sharp(filePath).resize({ width: 1920, height: 1080 }).toBuffer();

    const optimizedImage = ext === '.jpg' || ext === '.jpeg'
        ? await imagemin.buffer(resizedImage, { plugins: [imageminMozjpeg({ quality: 85 })] })
        : await imagemin.buffer(resizedImage, { plugins: [imageminPngquant({ quality: [0.65, 0.8] })] });

    fs.writeFileSync(filePath, optimizedImage);
    await client.query(`UPDATE images SET is_optimized = true WHERE id = ${id}`);
};

This script resizes images within a 1920x1080 frame and applies compression to keep quality high while reducing file size.

Step 3: Scheduling with Bash and Cron

A Bash script, optimize_images.sh, runs every 30 minutes to launch our Node.js script, which handles processing and updating the database.

*/30 * * * * /path/to/optimize_images.sh

With this setup, your images go from raw to production-ready automatically, with no redundancies. This workflow keeps your images optimized and your server lean.

⭐️ For the full details, check out the full article here.

🧰 CODING TOOLBOX

  • Emoji-Fallback.js - Replaces emoji characters with emoji images on devices that do not have emoji support with image emojis using Twemoji if needed

  • repomix - Repomix (formerly Repopack) is a powerful tool that packs your entire repository into a single, AI-friendly file

  • qapyq - An image viewer and AI-assisted editing tool that helps with curating datasets for generative AI models, finetunes and LoRA.

  • engy - an AI-powered development tool that generates fully functional web applications from natural language

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